step out the side door, into the swirling wind that pickpockets my breath.
“All it takes now for us to know all the gory details about some murder is for it to be horrible, or it to be a slow news week, and it’s everywhere, even if it’s some grocery clerk murder in Maine that hasn’t a thing to do with us.”
― The Bottoms
― The Bottoms
“Time is like that. Especially when you’re young. It can fix a lot of things, and what it doesn’t fix, you forget, or at least push back and only bring out at certain times, which is what I did, now and then, late at night, just before sleep claimed me.”
― The Bottoms
― The Bottoms
“Surf crashed against my consciousness with each heartbeat. Another incipient migraine.”
― Black Mountain
― Black Mountain
“We arrived only yesterday and already the cold sea air has seeped into my bones and softened the pages on which I now write.”
― The Fervor
― The Fervor
“Blackness ate inward from the corners of my vision. Reality crumpled and bloomed like a cigarette burn on a movie screen. The hole let into an alternate universe, where the scene unfolded bloodily.”
― Black Mountain
― Black Mountain
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